Los Angeles Times

Tyla won the first African music performance Grammy. Now, ‘I really want people to go deeper.’

It’s not easy to steal the show at the Met Gala. But no one who saw the South African singer Tyla ascend the stairs in May in a one-off Balmain couture gown made of sculpted sand will ever forget it. ...
CNN

Why Ghanaian singer King Promise and other African artists don’t want to be boxed into Afrobeats

Over the last decade, Afrobeats has become a global phenomenon, bringing African music into the Western mainstream. There’s now an Afrobeats category at the MTV Video Music Awards, and performers like ...
Rolling Stone

How the Grammys Came to Celebrate African Music

T he explosion of Afrobeats has been one of the biggest stories in the music industry over the past five years, with acts like Burna Boy, Davido, Asake, and Tems becoming global superstars. As ...
NPR

New Grammy category for African music ignores almost all of Africa

The 2024 Grammy awards will see the introduction of a new category: "best African music performance." When the category was announced last year, Grammys CEO Harvey Mason Jr. stated that it would be ...
The New York Times

5 Minutes That Will Make You Love South African Jazz

The country has a rich, original relationship to jazz, with American techniques layered into regional traditions and rhythms. Explore 50 years of recordings picked by musicians, poets and writers. By ...